Character sketch of history teacher in 'Albert Einstein at school' of the snapshot.... Please help ☺
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➡Albert Einstein at School : Patrick Pringle ⬅
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❗❗The story is an excerpt from Albert Einstein 's Biography " the Young Einstein " .
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➡The History Teacher Mr. Braun was a very arrogant , Strict teacher . His ideas about education was just limited to the thing that " Learning Facts and cramming is considered education " .
➡He was so mindful and couldn't tolerate Albert Einstein justifying each of his point . So he humiliated him so much in front of the whole class by calling him a Disgrace .
✨Summing up he was a kind of teacher most of us wouldn't wish to have ..
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This chapter begins with Albert arguing with his history teacher over learning of dates. His teacher holds him responsible for being lenient and distracting others from studies. He even ridicules Albert for knowing all the things and calls him a disgrace in front of the whole class. This incidents makes Albert feel miserable when he leaves school that afternoon. He never wanted to study in such a school that emphasizes more on rote learning than understanding the concepts and ideas. The narrator discusses his lodgings where Albert never wanted to leave. According to the narrator, his landlady was very ruthless who used to beat her children ruthlessly. Even the food, he was served there was dirt and squalor. In short, Albert never felt pleased living over there. In those days, Albert used to have a friend namely Yuri who counselled him not to leave that school. Yuri and Elsa try their level best to compare his life to the people worse than him but fail to make any difference. They Yuri gives him best of the solution of getting a nervous breakdown certificate made from one of his doctor friends who had qualified last week. Albert agrees to it, an appointment is fixed and he goes to see that doctor on his appointment day. Doctor Ernst Weil knew everything beforehand as he was narrated each and everything by Yuri about Albert and his disliking about the school. While talking to him, the doctor realizes that Albert was seriously on the verge of being the victim of nervous troubles. Albert tells his plans to the doctor that he wants to go to Italy to get into an Italian College in order to learn mathematics. Having talked to him, Doctor Ernst Weil hands him over that certificate and certifies that he needs rest for six months which can help him in getting rid of his school forever. Albert feels pleased after receiving that certificate. He goes to meet his mathematics teacher Mr. Koch and latter gives him a reference in written so that he can get admission in a good college. His teacher calls him a prodigy and says that he cannot teach him anymore. He also praises Albert highlighting his quality of teaching his mathematics teacher. Before Albert could go out to hand over his certificate to his head teacher, he is summoned to head’s room and ordered to leave the school as his presence disturbs others in the class and no serious work can be done when he is there. Albert and the head master both agree to former’s leaving the school without creating any mess. Albert feels very pleased leaving that school and goes to the country wherein he wanted to build his dreams.